We have been off the road now for a month. Just a temporary settling to allow us to prep our lives for an even bigger change. As I've written before, we are full time RVers, and while I thought I would blog a lot about that, it seems the lifestyle leaves me little time for blogging. I am working on that. Right now we are blessed to be settled for a short layover to take care of much family business and have all four of our children and our future daughter in law all with us while we focus on a season of intense discipleship as a family and reprioritizing our lives and belongings to begin another new chapter that has been 16 years in the making! I know this all sounds rather vague, I am struggling to put my thoughts on "paper" as it were.
Sixteen years ago God gave us a word that we would travel and teach, speak and preach His word as a family. We thought it was a word for that time and were very confused as it didn't come to pass. But now, sixteen years later it appears His timing is coming about. We are working together to put together our ministry and church and take it on the road.
While it is exciting to see this dream coming to fruition, it is also a bit scary and overwhelming. As often happens, the dream had about died for me. I was ready to start doing other things, when out of nowhere God suddenly sprang this on me again! I was ready to start our homestead dream again. Ready to settle onto another little farm and begin another dream. Suddenly God not only decided it was time, He planted the seed into other members of our family.
Now is the time that I have to really make some decisions about what to do with all of our stuff in storage. I know many will say, "It's only stuff!" And it is, only stuff. But it's a lifetime of stuff collected while we built our lives and raised our family. It is a lifetime of stuff that belonged to my grandmother, my mom, my mother in law, etc... It is a lifetime of memories made up of things I love. My teapots, my tea cups, my furniture that my grandfather built for me, family pictures, books I've had since I was a child, books I read to my children, dishes that we ate off of for years and years of holiday celebrations. You get the idea. So, yes, it is just stuff, but it is stuff that is dear to me and that I struggle to get rid of.
So the good news is that I have managed to get rid of one storage space. The bad news is I still have a very large storage space full of things I have to make decisions about. I will be honest, I don't foresee me getting rid of it all. I just don't. But I have to make it more manageable at least.
In addition to going through getting rid of stuff, we also have to make room to add 6 people to our RV. Now when we bought it, I specifically chose it because it would sleep 10 people! I wanted it to accomodate our entire family, because I was believing God to bring our entire family to a place where we would need an RV that size. Now He has brought us to that place! And I am thrilled! But when we bought it, I saw that 10 could sleep in it, I forgot about 10 people bringing along their clothes and other stuff that goes with 10 people! lol Details, details. I know that God will work all of these things out, I know He will. I have seen Him do much more than this! But what can I say? I am a person who sweats the small stuff, but I'm working to let go of it. I am still, after all, a work in progress.
Have a blessed day!
Colleen
